| Sumario: | The article informs that the analysis of intellectual folkways has probably not received as much attention in American sociology as it has elsewhere, despite significant treatment accorded to this field, both explicit and implicit, in the work done by certain American scholars.' In view of the shifting basis of the content and technique of knowledge in relation to a changing cultural base, such an analysis would appear to be a matter of special interest and concern to the educational sociologist. The analysis of the intellectual folkways thus appears to serve a dual function. First, not only is it part and parcel of the entire field of the sociology of knowledge, but secondly, the intellectual folkways may be viewed as constituting an extremely sensitized barometer to cultural transition and social change. In this paper, the attempt was made to determine the nature and direction of certain intellectual changes during a particularly crucial period of our history, the period between the years 1920 and 1940, as measured by the selectivity exercised by the reading public in the form of quantities and types of new books published by American publishers during the years specified.
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